red tape

英语

Bundle of US pension documents from 1906 bound in red tape
一捆用红带子捆起来的1906年的美国养老金文件

词源

一般认为指以前用红带子将政府文件绑起来的习惯。

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名词

red tape (不可數)

1. 曾用来将重要文件捆起来的红胶带
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     At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

2. (轉喻義，俗語) 繁文缛节，繁杂的手续

   近義詞：administrivia、administrativia、paperwork

   All the red tape and paperwork that goes on there prevents any progress.

   那边要办一大堆手续，工作根本没法继续。

   • 2022年10月5日, David Wallace-Wells, “Progressives Should Rally Around a Clean Energy Construction Boom”, 出自 The New York Times‎^[1]:

     One conspicuous cost of the compromise reached was a promise made by Senator Chuck Schumer to Manchin on what was vaguely called permitting reform: a catchall phrase referring to a whole host of efforts to cut red tape and ease the rollout of energy infrastructure.

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用法说明

• 比喻义一般使用加长构式cutting [through] red tape、bound up in red tape。

衍生词汇

• red-tapism
• red-tapist

 

异序词

• adepter, pad-tree, pre-date, predate, readept, retaped, tapered